Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!ingemar From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Sim City "cheats" Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 08:40:19 GMT References: <00946617.87B76080@aclcb.purdue.edu> Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping Lines: 35 rransom@aclcb.purdue.edu (Father Barleywine) writes: > To get more extra money than you really need and to keep the Sims >happy while extorting large quantities of cashola, do the following tax >time "cheat" (if only the IRS was so easy to fool): > ---set the tax rate to 0% in January > ---watch the Sims build like crazy through the year > ---with the Game Speed set to slow wait until the last part of > December (watch it carefully, because if you wait too > long you'll actually be stuck with 0% taxes for the year) Huh? How can you miss it, when the budget pops up by itself? > ---set the tax rate to 20% > ---watch the horrified Sims begin to get angry > ---when the budget window comes up in January set the tax rate back > to 0% Oh, the bug is worse that that (but perhaps your Mac is much faster than mine). When I tried it, I set the tax rate to 0%. Fast speed. On the moment that the month switched to "jan", I pull the menu and get the Budget window. Max tax. One moment later - before anyone have time to get angry - the yearly budget window pops up. Set tax to zero again. Oh, how happy my simms are! When I want to play SimCity now, I impose the that I'm only allowed to change tax when the budget window appears by itself. When I found this "hole in the rules", I wondered why I payed money for this game... And it isn't the only one. -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se